RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Detailed explanation-3: -They set out those baselines in the 14th Amendment. In May 1866, Thaddeus Stevens introduced the Joint Committee’s proposed amendment in Congress. The proposal included many of the provisions in the final amendment, including the Equal Protection Clause, the Privileges or Immunities Clause, and the Due Process Clause.